Roland Francis wrote: > All things being equal, foreigners are better neighbors - if they are > not riff-raff, they have been brought up to respect the law, they will > beautify their homes and the houses in the neighborhood will > ultimately fetch better prices because of this....
Date: Sun, 05 Jul 2009 22:40:44 +0530 From: Frederick Noronha <[email protected]> By "foreigners" do you mean a Sri Lankan Tamil in Toronto is a better neighbour? Or a Dalit from Mayawati's UP is a better neighbour in Wimbledon? Or, do you just mean "rich Whites" are better neighbours? Is this another way of saying we Goans are as much (if not more) class-biased and racist as they come... even when we are ourselves brown, have mostly known poverty in our (or our parents) lifetimes, and have live in the countries of the South in most cases (Asia including Goa or Bombay or Karachi, Africa even if under a colonial dispensation, the Gulf and so on....) Mario asks: Fred, Doesn't it depend on the individual Sri Lankan Tamil or the Dalit Bhayya? In some cases, if they are educated and well-to-do professionals they may make as good neighbors as anyone else. However, their stereotypes almost certainly will not and you may end up with a neighborhoos redolent with the wafting aromas of sambhar and cow cakes:-)). Also, is it "racist" to observe that "rich White" foreigners make better neighbors than poor brown desis as far as the neighborhood is concerned? Or, is this just a fact.
